Ghost Flight - Eva Asprakis

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Résumé :
An International Impact Book Award Winner (November 2025). A 2025 BookLife Fiction Prize Quarterfinalist (October 2025). A 2025 New York Book Festival General Fiction Award Honorable Mention (August 2025). A Kirkus Reviews 'GET IT' Book (August 2025). 'A sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads' Kirkus Reviews 'A rarity...Asprakis's skill at tapping into life's beauty and pain lingers long after the book's final page' the BookLife Prize 'A haunting and heartbreaking story' Rebekah Gregoriades for Cyprus Mail 'A compelling novel that deserves its place on your bookshelf' Annetta Benzar, author of I Am Cyprus 'Her most accomplished novel to date...confirms [Asprakis's] place as one of the most exciting writers of her generation' Matthew Phillip Long, author of Life Goes On Without You and Me August, 2005. High-school sweethearts Aristos and Agathi, and Petros and Melina, are the best of friends, until Aristos declares that he is leaving Cyprus for university. Seven years later, Aristos returns with his new girlfriend, Wendy, to find Petros and Melina engaged, and Agathi still hung up on him. As the estranged friends become reacquainted, their worlds come apart. All of them have wrongs to right, but with Cyprus hurtling towards the worst aviation disaster in its history, they might have less time than they think....

Biographie:
Eva Asprakis is the award-winning author of three contemporary fiction novels. Her first novel, Love and Only Water, was published in September 2022. Her second novel, Thirty-Eight Days of Rain, won the 2024 Ink Book Prize for Fiction. On its release in March 2024, the novel was selected as a NetGalley Book of the Month, an IndieReader Approved and Best Reviewed Book, and a Reedsy Discovery Featured Recommendation. It was also a NoMo Book Club Pick, one of ten titles longlisted for the 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award, and a Runner-Up in the 2026 Indies Today Awards.? Eva's third novel, Ghost Flight, came out in May 2025, earning a GET IT Verdict from Kirkus Reviews and winning a 2025 International Impact Book Award.??? Both Ghost Flight and Thirty-Eight Days of Rain received Honorable Mentions at the 2025 New York Book Festival Awards. Ghost Flight was also named a Finalist in the 2026 Indies Today Awards, a Quarterfinalist in the Publishers Weekly-sponsored 2025 BookLife Fiction Prize, and a Top 100 Notable Book in the 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award. Beyond publishing three novels, Eva has appeared on various podcasts and in publications including Cyprus Mail, Kirkus Reviews Magazine and The Publishing Post. In 2024, she spoke on the Literature panel at the Cyprus Diaspora Forum and ran a 'Writing as Remedy' webinar for World Childless Week. In 2025, she served as a judge for the Ink Book Prize for Fiction and became a member of the Technical Committee on Culture in Cyprus. In 2026, she was shortlisted for the CYDIA Literature Award at the Cyprus Diaspora Forum. Born in England, Eva has spent her adult life in Cyprus, where she continues to live and write. Her work explores complex family dynamics, sexuality and womanhood, and the search for identity and belonging....

Sommaire:
WINNER of a 2025 International Impact Book Award. A 2026 Indies Today Award Finalist. A 2025 BookLife Fiction Prize Quarterfinalist. A 2025 New York Book Festival General Fiction Award Honorable Mention. A 2025 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award Top 100 Notable Book. 'A sharp and well-observed portrait of lives at the crossroads' Kirkus Reviews (GET IT Verdict) 'A rarity...Asprakis's skill at tapping into life's beauty and pain lingers long after the book's final page' the BookLife Prize 'A haunting and heartbreaking story' Rebekah Gregoriades for Cyprus Mail 'A tender journey through memory...showcasing once again [Asprakis's] deep understanding of the fragile places inside us' Dinos Toumazos for Agora Dialogue 'A must-read for anyone who loves stories of deep friendships, fractured by time and circumstance...showing how the choices we make leave lasting imprints on others' IndieReader 'A compelling novel that deserves its place on your bookshelf' Annetta Benzar, author of I Am Cyprus 'Her most accomplished novel to date...confirms [Asprakis's] place as one of the most exciting writers of her generation' Matthew Phillip Long, author of Life Goes On Without You and Me August, 2005. High-school sweethearts Aristos and Agathi, and Petros and Melina, are the best of friends, until Aristos declares that he is leaving Cyprus for university. Seven years later, Aristos returns with his new girlfriend, Wendy, to find Petros and Melina engaged, and Agathi still hung up on him. As the estranged friends become reacquainted, their worlds come apart. All of them have wrongs to right, but with Cyprus hurtling towards the worst aviation disaster in its history, they might have less time than they think....